I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately. I’m 16 books behind on my Goodreads goal, and have been having a hard time getting immersed in books. In an attempt to get out of my slump, I hopped on NetGalley and downloaded The Red: An Erotic Fantasy by one of my favorite authors, Tiffany Reisz.Read more

I suck at readalongs. I start them with the best of intentions, then I fall behind or read ahead or otherwise get out of sync with the rest of the group. But I do love reading a book and getting to see how other people feel as they’re reading it, and that brings me toRead more

Hi all! At long last here are my responses to this week’s reading questions, which cover chapters 33-47. If you haven’t been reading the book, beware of spoilers. 1) What stood out to you for Moirin’s baptising ceremony? Have you ever been through such a religious ceremony and did it go as you expected? ItRead more

Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series is one of my all-time favorite reads. Some of my blog friends have been doing a readalong of the series, and we’re finally on Naamah’s Curse, the second book of the third trilogy, which features a Celtic protagonist who travels far from home in search of her destiny. As usual, life isRead more

Shadowfire (originally published as Vazkor, Son of Vazkor) is the second book in Tanith Lee’s Birthgrave Trilogy. In the first book, a nameless woman awakens from her slumber in a volcano. She was the last of a doomed race, and wandered the world in search of her past and her future. At one point in The Birthgrave, she hasRead more

Warrior Witch is the third book in Danielle Jensen’s Malediction Trilogy. As a brief recap: the protagonist, a young human named Cecile, is married against her will to a troll prince in book one, in order to try to break a curse that doomed all of the trolls to life in a subterranean prison. But TristanRead more

During the past few months, I’ve been notably absent from my blog, and my only posts have been ones that were scheduled/planned long in advance. There was a reason. Not so long ago, my grandfather had a heart attack. As he was about to be released from the hospital, we learned he had cancer. MyRead more

Today I am pleased to introduce Danielle Jensen, author of the Malediction Trilogy, as part of her blog tour for the new prequel, The Broken Ones. I *finally* and belatedly recently finished Warrior Witch, the third book in the trilogy, and I was blown away by it, especially because the book (and the series as a whole)Read more

The Illusionist’s Apprentice by Kristy Cambron is a mystery/romance set in the mid 1920s starring the great illusionist Harry Houdini’s former apprentice. Wren Lockhart lives alone with only one companion, her manager Irina. She wears men’s clothing and stands out from her peers. After Houdini’s death, Wren has kept a low profile, performing in vaudeville shows butRead more

Rowan’s Ruin is a standalone trade paperback graphic novel about a girl named Katie who participates in a house swap, only to find that the house is haunted. But Katie isn’t scared off–instead she goes to the library and tries to figure out the house’s mysteries. As she learns about the house’s history, she hasRead more